Bugbear Barbarian Quotes & Sayings

Black-Scholes works for short-term options, but if it's a long-term option and you think you know something [about the underlying asset], it's insane to use Black-Scholes. — Charlie Munger

We can become slaves to things we don't understand — Vernon Howard

You cannot continue on the same path and arrive at a different destination. Make the choice to have your actions reflect your goals. — Steve Maraboli

If we take the poor away from the Gospel, we won't be able to understand the whole message of Jesus Christ. — Pope Francis

The weaker the partner is viewed by the Muslims, then the greater the anger which they express. And this anger is often carefully staged. — Bassam Tibi

Effortlessness is the ability to slow down and listen for the spaces between the joints ... Deep within all things there is a natural rhythm, a music of opening and closing, expansion and contraction. — Wayne Muller

Extreme concupiscence may be found under extreme austerity. — Margaret Of Valois

Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too, as in certain combinations so words and in all kinds of music; for melodies and cadences are beautiful; and minds that lift themselves above the realm of sense to a higher order are aware of beauty in the conduct of life, in actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues ... — Plotinus

A long time ago, in a town with which I used to be familiarly acquainted, there dwelt an elderly person of grim aspect, known by the name and title of Doctor Grimshawe, whose household consisted of a remarkably pretty and vivacious boy, and a perfect rosebud of a girl, two or three years younger than he, and an old maid of all work, of strangely mixed breed, crusty in temper and wonderfully sluttish in attire. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

People want to care about people. People look after each other, given the chance ... I believe just believing in goodness generates a tiny bit of the stuff, so that being so foolish as to believe in our better natures, if just for a day, we actually contribute to the sum total of generosity in the universe. — Julie Powell